Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD
THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD (Tennessee) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,841 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($149,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $355k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Little Pantry That Could does
Mission
The mission of The Little Pantry That Could is to provide food and clothing to low income individuals and families.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of The Little Pantry That Could is to provide food and clothing to low income individuals and families.
$690,115 spentof which $545,459 as grants$143,937 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe mission of The Little Pantry That Could is to provide food and clothing to low income individuals and families.
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $690,115.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $375k to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Miranda Merkle
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $110k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 29% · 2021 42% · 2022 94% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $132k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD?
- THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD (Tennessee) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $354,841 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($149,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $354,841 in grants to THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $149,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LITTLE PANTRY THAT COULD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing